It is summer and I will take some time off blogging. The remaining weeks of July will be quiet, and then I am back in August. Until then you...

Today I am proud to announce that a brand new online journal has been born. Frames Cinema Journal , published by the Film Department at the ...

In 1952 Hasse Ekman was in Paris doing post-production work for his film The Fire-Bird  ( Eldfågeln  1952). The film was a colour experiment...

Usually when a filmmaker dies, it is long after they have retired, and long after they made their last film. Not so with Nora Ephron, who di...

The library in Farsta, the suburb of Stockholm where I grow up, did not have many film books. A dodgy one in Swedish and Truffaut's inte...